Open Call

ANTONIO MENCHEN: BLACK WITH OTHERWORLDLY BACKGROUND (MATERIALS FOR A TECHNIQUE)

Antonio Menchen will be opening his residency at Bulegoa z/b with a presentation. His proposal negro fondo ultraterreno was chosen, together with Espigadoras / Gleaners by Claudia Pagés, for residency in 2018; members of the jury for which were José Ramón Ais (artist), Beatriz Herráez (art historian, curator and current director of Basque Museum-Art Centre Artium) and the members of Bulegoa z/b.

Antonio Menchen: negro fondo ultraterreno (materiales para una técnica)An object, a story onto which is drawn a contour in time, which projects a shadow still that I try to define. From inside it I try to lay out things, examples, different elements that come together, overlap, or are rewritten to play out as an experience of a simple similarity between non-similar things.

negro fondo ultraterreno is the continuation of a work, a way of making, which considers the transition of image, from the mechanical to the digital world, and how this step acts on a procedure, how it affects a form of knowledge or resource. A gap, where silhouettes can still be made out; papers, voices that transfer the experience, the still perceptible reality of an analgesic, mythical, spectral past.

This changes the way we consider material, by accumulation and conversion, by necessity and habit. Using an archive of images continually being put together and edited, I will try to occupy this framework to think about and reverse the cancellation of projection, of what is still possible, of what is imagined, to recall the structure of a prediction.